People v. Patten’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 2021
22 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Globe Newspaper Company v. Superior Court for County of Norfolk · Maryland v. Craig · Coy v. Iowa · 24 Md. App. 334 - Brooks v. State · Stanger v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is nothing about a [support] person sitting quietly to the side of a witness which is particularly distracting or likely to arouse intense feeling among jurors for a witness or against a defendant.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“possible influence on the jury by her presence as a support person was minimal since the jury was already well aware of her sympathy for [the victim-witness].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In all cases, the judge shall admonish the support person or persons to not prompt, sway, or influence the witness in any way.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.